You're
Doomed.
(Cards from lowest to highest casting cost.)
You're
Doomed.
Black Cards:
2 Dark Rituals (you may
want more, it's up to you.)
2 Coffin Queens
1 Bone Dancer
3 Pestilences
1 Screeching Harpy
3 Souldrinkers
2 Slaughters
2 Fallen Angels
2 Greater Werewolves
1 Ihsan's Shade
2 Minions of Tevesh Szat
1 Pit Spawn
White
Cards:
2
Anoints
2
Icatian Moneychangers
4
Parapets
3
Keepers of Light
2
Sunwebs
3
Melesse Spirits
2
Pearl Dragons
Land:
15 Swamps, 10 Plains
First of all,
let me make a few suggestions. For pure effect, you may want to get
the oldest versions of the cards that you can get. Unlimited Edition
land or prior to that has the words "Tap" on the card, which spells out
the opponent's demise easily. Not only that, but generally all of
the older versions of the cards (Fallen Angel, Dark Ritual, Pestilence,
etc.) have been printed with a lot of dark ink. It just makes your
deck more gloomy. :) Also while playing, play some gloomy music
if you can too (Circle of Dust, Klank, Metallica, Skinny Puppy, the Titanic
Soundtrack...) And finally, if you can't get ahold of some of these
cards, don't worry about it. (Or beef up the deck and make it even
worse for the opponent.) Find as many nasty creatures as you can,
but the most important cards are your Slaughters, your Pestilences, Anoints,
and your Keepers of Light.
O.K. Now
to the good stuff. Your Keepers of Light
are the most important in your deck. Other life-givers can be added
(Icatian Moneychangers, Essence
Bottles, Fountains of Youth, etc.)
but they won't be as effective. Or annoying. Combining them
with Slaughters, you can pretty much take out a creature a turn (except
for black creatures...) Throw up some Parapets now, and make your
creatures have a little more defense... This little bit, seemingly
significant, will be a huge help when Pestilence comes out. Melesse
Spirits will not be affected by it whatsoever, so if you can keep
one of those out you can pretty much Pestilence forever. If you are
lucky and manage to keep everything killed (except for your creatures of
course) you can bring out (keep out with Anoints)
the Bone Dancer or one of your Coffin Queens. Now after Slaughtering
or wiping out the opponent with other means, these guys can walk through
untouched and take creatures from the graveyard. Nasty nasty nasty...
Now, you can also use these Keepers of Light
to help you add on more counters on your Souldrinkers too... Making
them bigger and bigger. Just don't get greedy, jump the gun, and
do it all at once. Forcing your life to go to 5 or less around your
first couple of turns makes the opponent really edgy and barbaric.
You just may be eating a unblocked Mountain Goat
with a Blood Lust for 5 points, or having
the creature Plowshared, making your efforts
turn to vain. Be patient. You have all the time in the world.
However, the opponent does not. As long as you have a fairly good
defense up and are destroying the worst creatures off, you can pull off
some of the best comebacks that will have your friends talking about for
years. "Remember that time when I was at 50 life, and you were at
-8 life, and those stupid Keepers of Light
boosted you back up to 1 life? And from then on I just kept dying,
losing creatures and couldn't finish you off? I can't believe that
you beat me, and I REALLY can't believe that you won with 60 life left..."